636–8

Conversation No. 636-8

Date: December 10, 1971
Time: 4:18 pm - 5:11 pm
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Rose Mary Woods
[The recording begins at an unknown time while the conversation is already in progress]

Color picture
-Location in the White House

John B. Connally entered at an unknown time after 4:18 pm.

Woods’s schedule
-Azores

The President and Connally talked with Walter Annenberg between 4:20 pm and 4:27 pm.

[Conversation No. 636-8A]
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[See Conversation No. 16-80; one item has been withdrawn from the conversation; Manolo
Sanchez can be heard in the background]

Woods left at 4:25 pm.

Annenberg
-Gift to the President
-“Star of the President”
-Steuben


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International monetary situation
-British
-French
-Reforms

Sanchez entered at an unknown time after 4:27 pm.

Gift from Annenberg
-Design
-Location

Sanchez left at an unknown time before 4:36 pm.

Signing ceremony
-Revenue Act of 1971
-Ways and Means Committee
-Senate
-Bi-partisanship
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-Praise from the President
-Wilbur D. Mills
-Location

Connally's meeting with George P. Shultz
-Budget
-International monetary situation
-Connally and Shultz’s view
-Arthur F. Burns
-Price of gold
-US compared to Europe
-Meeting with the Canadians
-Timing
-Japanese
-Delegation in Hawaii
-Unknown person’s trip to Japan
-Edwin S. Cohen
-John R. Petty
-Paul A. Volcker
-Azores
-Trade Agreements
-US representation in Japan
-Agriculture
-Potential negotiations

The President talked with the White House operator at an unknown time between 4:27 pm and
4:36 pm.

[Conversation No. 636-8B]

[See Conversation No. 16-81]

[End of telephone conversation]

Call from Burns

The President’s schedule
-Forthcoming meetings

The President talked with Arthur Burns between 4:36 pm and 4:42 pm.
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[Conversation No. 636-8C]

[See Conversation No. 16-82]

[End of telephone conversation]

International monetary situation
-French

Pay Board

Federal Reserve Board [FRB]
-Membership
-Frederic V. Malek's call to Connally
-John E. Sheehan
-Louisville
-Florida comptroller
-Minneapolis
-President’s instructions
-Recommendation
-Sheehan
-Appointment
-Comparison to Supreme Court
-Warren E. Burger
-Comparison to Federal Communications Commission [FCC], Federal Trade
Commission [FTC], Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]

Pay Board
-Pay increases
-Relations to past decisions

Price Commission

Pay Board
-Quadriad meeting
-Connally’s conversation with Donald H. Rumsfeld
-Pay increases
-Railroad brotherhoods
-Strikes
-Price Commission
-Business actions
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-Phase I
-Henry E. Ford, II
-Automobile sales
-Burns
-Labor
-Executive director
-Staff
-Difficulties in organization
-George H. Boldt
-Phase II
-[Rumsfeld]
-Cost of Living Council [COLC]
-Burns
-Activities justified

International monetary situation
-Azores trip
-President’s instructions
-Henry A. Kissinger
-Georges J.R. Pompidou
-Prime Minister of the Azores
-Kissinger’s meeting with Pompidou
-William P. Rogers
-Price of gold
-Chances for an agreement
-US-French posturing
-Japanese
-Kissinger-Pompidou meeting
-Edward R.G. Heath
-Involvement in negotiations
-France
-Germany
-Willy Brandt
-Possible attitude
-Kissinger
-Berlin
-European security conference
-Revaluation of dollar
-Amount
-France
-Japan
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-Trade negotiations
-Negotiation style
-Compromise
-Monetary issues
-Three Point program
-US prospects for a settlement

India-Pakistan situation
-East Pakistan
-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics [USSR]
-The President's meeting with [Vladimir V. Matskevich] and Yuli M. Vorontsov
-Leonih I. Brezhnev


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PAKISTAN


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-US-USSR relations
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks [SALT]
-Trade agreement
-Settlement in the Middle East
-European security conference
-World War II
-The President’s view
-Cease-fire
-West Pakistan
-State Department
-Possible summit
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-Ceasefire
-Carrier movement
-Jordanian planes


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PRC


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-Brezhnev
-Current relationship with US
-Risk
-Connally’s view
-East-West Pakistan split
-Preservation
-Indonesia
-Arab countries
-Possible effects
-PRC
-USSR
-West Pakistan
-American public opinion
-Possible impact
-Letters
-Non-involvement
-Connally’s talk with Kissinger
-USSR
-Negotiations
-Change in American psychology
-USSR
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-Vietnam War

The President's accomplishments
-Praise from Connally
-American psychology
-Connally’s conversations
-Congress
-Domestic and foreign policy
-Criticism
-Effect


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William H. Rehnquist
-Joseph C. Kraft article
-Louis D. Brandeis
-Civil rights
-Herbert L. Block
-Cartoons
-Washington Post
-“Letters to the Editors”
-Kraft
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Columns
-Joseph W. Alsop
-Tax bill
-John D. Ehrlichman
-Telephone conversation with Edwin S. Cohen

Connally left at 5:11 pm.